just use serveme?

Use previous experience to determine what server will be best for you and your teammates. Everyone has different quirks with their routing to certain providers so you will get a page of different answers.

This. Rather than buying a server, just rent one from serveme.tf. If you want to absolutely guarantee yourself a server, get Premium. It's definitely worth doing, and you're supporting Arie, who is nothing short of amazing.

For the EU players: you can also buy a private server on serveme at the EU site. works way better than any other gameserver host

http://i.imgur.com/XX8C37h.png

How is a private from serveme better than getting a Frankfurt 18 slot + Mumble for under 13.50 euros

For one, you're supporting a fellow tf2 player.

tragic isn't a tf2 player? news to me

He isn't EU though?

Being able to switch locations instantly if you or your opponent pings badly to the server. That's coolest thing in my opinion. A lot of people using serveme.tf also say it's easier than renting and configuring a server yourself.

In Europe you can get away with just getting premium, since there are so many servers available, so that would be significantly cheaper at 5 euros per 3 months.

In NA I don't have as many servers (and they're all tragicservers already anyway :) ), so premium might not guarantee you a server, but if you can live with that (just book a server 1h in advance) it would be cheaper than renting a private server. Just like in EU you can always pick the best location for your game.

Accelerate Servers are actually pretty good and with NFO servers have been pinging really bad lately, Accelerate has been much better. Also, if you use the promo code KOUNTER you get 25% off so thats, 6$ a month for a 14 slot server and free 50 slot mumble.

nfo chicago or ny

every other na server location and provider is garbage

so many people have nfo dallas servers and the routing and performance is unreliable let alone the fact that texas is a terrible location to host a server

nfo or bust

and the added bonus of the server being unusuable because like 10% of this community has 120 ping to accelerate

Why is texas a horrible location to host?

Texas servers blow for Canadians

http://i.imgur.com/XgKbz2w.jpg

texas servers completely fuck over canadians while still pinging high for a lot of americans (most canadian tf2 players live in these 4 areas)

http://i.imgur.com/yPRLDh1.gif

population density map of north america, note how a pretty big majority of the american population lives on the east half of the country

chicago servers are a nice mix of not fucking over canadians (which id guess are maybe around ~20% of total north american players) while in a convenient location that a majority of american players ping very well to. californians have the worst ping to chicago than the rest of the main population centers in the continent. pings to chicago from socal are around ~80 (+/-5)

theres more canadian players than californian players

how the fuck is server for a 1000 years cheaper to rent than to rent it for a year?

serveme premium means you can rent from a larger pool of servers, not the same thing as a private server

fml nevermind im blind